Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
PC Anthony Wallyn (left), who stands at 7 foot 2 inches tall, towering over his colleague, PC Tony Thich, who is 5 foot 6 inches outside King Edward VII Hospital yesterday. “I get 100-500 requests for a photo each day,” says PC Wallyn.
Updated 3.20pm
QUEEN ELIZABETH II has been released from hospital after she was admitted over the weekend with gastroenteritis.
The British monarch was hospitalised yesterday at London’s King Edward VII hospital after she came down with the stomach bug on Friday, forcing her to cancel public engagements over the weekend.
All engagements this week have been cancelled or postponed including her planned trip to Rome.
In a brief statement released this afternoon, Buckingham Palace said: “The Queen has left the King Edward VII’s Hospital having been admitted briefly as part of the assessment of symptoms of gastroenteritis.”
She had been resting at Windsor Castle but was taken to hospital in London yesterday as a “precautionary measure” according a spokesperson for the palace.
“She was not taken into hospital immediately after feeling the symptoms. This is simply to enable doctors to better assess her,” the spokesperson said adding that the Queen was in “good spirits”.
It was her first hospital stay in ten years. Gastroenteritis is a viral infection which can cause diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fever, tummy ache and drowsiness.
The Queen was last admitted to hospital in December 2003 when she had an operation at the same hospital to remove cartilage from her left knee and had some benign facial lesions removed at the same time.
- with reporting from AFP
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
I now prefer twitter to facebook. Just need events and their sorted
i only use facebook to wish people a Happy Birthday
Happy birthday.
Just as long as it doesn’t threaten thejournals copy and paste tweets policy!
Skynet! One company owns all…look out folks….
Don’t worry. There is still Microsoft.
So then, which one is the evil one?
If such a deal goes ahead, I can see all Twitter users being forced to create a Google user profile, much in the way you have to with all Google products and services.
Google is like the EU which can be summed up in two words – Fascist dictatorship
Would a fascist dictatorship allow you make such a comment or give you such unhindered Internet use? I doubt very much so. Back into your box.
You’d know the schools are closed this week :)
Still don’t really see the point of twitter apart from using it to make comments. Facebook has many uses but I really don’t get twitter.
It’s a micro blog. It’s not supposed to be used like Facebook. Twitter is excellent tool for getting your message heard. You select your newsfeed and see everything. No algorithms choosing what you see.
Great news. Really important stuff.
Said no one about this story, ever.
@fred yet you took the time to read it
It’s a good tech read. Facebook have also nailed mobile revenue. They have adapted well to it. Google is still struggling in that field.
It will be interesting to see how the next few years pan out. It’s difficult to retain such a coveted spot in the tech world.
The internet is literally watching us all. Mad.
I use both, why not?
If Google take over Twitter, then I will be deactivating and closing account as I did with facebook when they introduced their sneaky new opt ins in Jan of this year.
have your say